Polymer Clay Man eating plant- Part 2

Once everything was baked, painted and dry i assembled all the pieces in the pot. For the roots i used tacky glue and for the stem i used hot glue....a lot of hot glue.

After assembling everything my hands were stained green, so i tried rubbing a bit of the paint off but it didn't work and green paint was still coming off

This was because i had mixed up my tubes of acrylic and watercolours!

I contemplated using pva to coat it but figured it would either make the paint bleed or eventually peal off.

So in the end i used a glossy craft varnish which fixed the paint problem and gave it a nice shine

I did buy matte mod podge a couple of days later which would have worked.

I added a small amount of moss just to cover up the hot glue and joins before adding leaves

The leaves are just felt that i painted with acrylic paint and more of the gloss varnish.

Before adding the gloss i really didn't like how they looked, probably because the contrasted so much with the body.

While the gloss was still tacky i put the leaves in round pots to give them some shape and once completely dried i hot glued them into place

Finally i added more moss and tacky glue the leaves to the pot to keep them in place.

And that's finished

Thanks for ready